Within the program of courses held by the Civil Engineering Department, the Asphalt Laboratory held a training course entitled (Examination of maximum laboratory density of asphalt mixtures Gmm) for the period 18-22/2/2024.
He gave the lecture at the course
Hammam Hassan Mohammed
Engineer Heba Yassin Khudair
The course covered the definition and training of examiners on how to conduct the maximum laboratory density test for non-compressed asphalt mixtures at a temperature of 25 according to the approved American specification ASTM D2041.
Theoretical and practical training was also conducted
A number of laboratory staff members and graduate students participated in the course

Believing in openness to state institutions and joint cooperation between the Iraqi Ministry of Environment, the University of Technology/Department of Civil Engineering, and the Environmental Research Center
Organized the Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division in the Civil Engineering Department
The environmental symposium entitled (The Nationally Determined Contributions Document for Climate Change, Combating Desertification, and the Importance of Green Spaces) will take place at ten o’clock in the morning on Monday, February 19, 2024, in the hall and in the hall of the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in the department.
In the presence of the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Majeed, Director of the Environmental Research Center, and a number of department professors and students.
The symposium began with the Assistant Director of the Baghdad Environment, Engineer Marwa Abdel Karim, providing a brief explanation of the activities and tasks of the Environment Directorate and the most important environmental problems and pollutants that the city of Baghdad suffers from.

Then, the official of the Climate Change Division, Engineer Sarmad Yousef, spoke about the causes of climate change and its effects on various aspects, the most important climate agreements and the outcomes of COP28, and touched on the National Contributions Document (NDC) in adaptation and mitigation and Iraq’s directions and procedures for climate change.
Then the official of the Agricultural Lands and Desertification Monitoring Division, Engineer Muhammad Amjad, presented his lecture on desertification, its causes and negative effects on humans and the environment, and practical ways to combat it. He talked about the phenomena of desertification in Baghdad and its causes, and the importance of afforestation projects, green belts, and increasing green spaces in mitigating the effects of desertification and climate change.
The symposium concluded by presenting the most important recommendations and agreeing on the necessity of activating joint work to develop solutions and treatments for environmental issues and challenges. Certificates of appreciation were also distributed to the participants. The Quality Assurance and Performance Evaluation Division discussed future coordination to hold a series of meetings to formulate a joint scientific cooperation agreement.

Professor Dr. Muhammad Youssef Fattah, Scientific Assistant for the Department of Civil Engineering, received the award presented by Al Ain University in Iraq to pioneering researchers.
On Saturday morning, February 10, 2024, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research held a ceremony to distribute the Iraqi Al Ain University Award, fourth edition 2024, sponsored by the Elsevier International Foundation for Scientific Research, where the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Technology won one of these awards. This came through Professor Dr. Muhammad Youssef Fattah received the Iraqi Al Ain University Award for Pioneer Researchers
AUIQ Senior Scientific Research Awards, which were won by 47 researchers from various universities and entities according to the mechanisms established by the committee supervising the award.

The Engineering and Technology Magazine, in cooperation with the Civil Engineering Department, held a workshop entitled: (Supporting the university’s magazine to enter the global databases)
This will take place at ten o’clock in the morning on Sunday, February 18, 2024, in the hall of the martyr Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in the department.
In the presence of the Honorable Head of the Civil Engineering Department, Assistant Professor Dr. Ali Majeed, the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering and Technology, Professor Dr. Qusay Fadel Abdel Hamid Al-Salhi, and in the presence of the members of the Editorial Board of the magazine in the specialty of Civil Engineering, met with the faculty members and graduate students in the department. The Chairman of the Editorial Board touched on To important topics related to raising the level of the magazine locally and globally by publishing original and qualitative research in the magazine, in addition to the requirements required for research in terms of the English language and presenting the research using modern software. The Chairman of the Commission also touched on the adoption of research published in the magazine as primary sources for the research of faculty members and graduate students to be published in journals indexed within the Clarivate and Scopus databases to transform the university magazine from local to international as a basic requirement for entry into the global databases.
The Chairman of the Authority stressed the support of the university magazine in the service of the University of Technology and the public interest